Organic Chemistry 7e by John McMurry

Free download Organic Chemistry (7th edition) written by John McMurry (Cornell University) in pdf. published by Thomson in 2008.

According to author; I love to write. I get real pleasure from taking a complicated subject, turning it around until I see it clearly, and then explaining it in simple words. I write to explain chemistry to students today the way I wish it had been explained to me years ago. The enthusiastic response to the six previous editions has been very gratifying and suggests that this book has served students well. I hope you will find that this seventh edition of Organic Chemistry builds on the strengths of the first six and serves students even better. I have made every effort to make this new edition as effective, clear, and readable as possible; to show the beauty and logic of organic chemistry; and to make organic chemistry enjoyable to learn.

This seventh edition, like its predecessors, blends the traditional functional-group approach with a mechanistic approach. The primary organization is by functional group, beginning with the simple (alkenes) and progressing to the more complex. Most faculty will agree that students new to the subject and not yet versed in the subtleties of mechanism do better this way. In other words, the what of chemistry is generally easier to grasp than the why. Within this primary organization, however, I place heavy emphasis on explaining the fundamental mechanistic similarities of reactions.